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This paper aims to investigate the ways in which television current-affairs documentaries define English education fever as a troubling social phenomenon having swept the Korean society since the late 1990s. After identifying the complicated nature and status of English acquired through Korean histo...

This paper aims to investigate the ways in which television current-affairs documentaries define English education fever as a troubling social phenomenon having swept the Korean society since the late 1990s. After identifying the complicated nature and status of English acquired through Korean history and social structure by reviewing the literature, the paper analyzes twelve current-affairs documentaries aired between 2001 and 2008 by employing Chatman"s narrative analysis frame. The findings show that most narratives lack the accounts of the fundamental and structural causes for the English fever while that they point out that English fever reflects and reinforces class polarization and regional disparity. However the narratives aired before 2008 tend to confine English fever phenomenon to English education in early childhood, and suggest narrow-minded individual and methodology concerned solution. In contrast, the narratives aired after 2008 reach the conclusion casting a doubt upon the existing dominant discours, that is, English as an essential tool for both national competitive power and individual survival. In addition, the narrative made after 2008 raises the fundamental questions regarding the ultimate aim and social and cultural meanings of English education in Korea.

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